Evariste Richer, Ellipse/Eclipse (detail), 2007

The Gregor Podnar and schleicher+lange galleries are pleased to announce Ellipse/Eclipse. This double exhibition project, which is taking place as part of the gallery exchange programme Berlin-Paris 2010, will be on display through March 13 in Berlin. The second part will take place from January 29 to March 20 at galerie schleicher+lange in Paris.

The two exhibitions, curated jointly by the two galleries, take their name from a work by Evariste Richer. In the project, each gallery is hosting artists from the other while at the same time showing artists from its own programme. In Berlin, the Galerija Gregor Podnar is presenting works by Attila Csörgö, Franziska Furter, Laurent Montaron, Goran Petercol and Evariste Richer. In Paris, galerie schleicher+lange presents Attila Csörgö, Vadim Fiskin, Alexander Gutke, Goran Petercol and Evariste Richer.

ELLIPSE / ECLIPSE – PART I
ATTILA CSÖRGÖ, FRANZISKA FURTER, LAURENT MONTARON, GORAN PETERCOL, EVARISTE RICHER
Exhibition Dates: January 16 – March 13, 2010
Opening Reception: January 15, 2010, 5pm – 9pm

GALERIJA GREGOR PODNAR
Lindenstrasse 35
10969 Berlin Germany
Gallery Hours: Tu – Sa 11am – 6pm

La Bataille 2008 Moulding, frame 205 x 278 x 11,7 cm (6.8 feet x 9.1 feet x 4 1/2 inches)

“As part of their exhibition at the Wentrup gallery, Kolkoz turns the power of imagery on its head: for example, by layering the frame of an image over and over until the subject itself disappears; by reversing the colour of the clothes of people whose portraits they find on the internet or by inversing the word “Welcome”, to question the authority of visual language. Kolkoz (Samuel Boutruche and Benjamin Moreau), like the two sides of Janus, the mythological doorkeeper, tackle each piece as a threshold through which symmetrical and reversible worlds are in dialogue, while also revealing hallucinatory aspects of the art.” – Matthieu Poirier

“Für ihre Ausstellung bei Wentrup wenden KOLKOZ die Macht der Bilder gegen sich. So vergraben sie beispielsweise das Bildsujet bis zu seinem Verschwinden / seiner Unkenntlichkeit hinter massiven Rahmen, die seinen Wert eigentlich hervorheben sollen. Sie verkehren die Farbe der Kleidung der im Internet gesammelten Portraits oder die typografische Bedeutung des Wortes „Welcome“, als ob sie die Autorität der visuellen Sprache in Frage stellen wollten. Samuel Boutruche und Benjamin Moreau, wie die 2 Gesichter des Janus, der Wächter der mythologischen Pforte, betrachten jedes Werk als eine Schwelle / Stufe, an der die symetrischen und umkehrbaren Welten in Dialog treten, nicht ohne uns einige halluzinatorische Mechanismen von Kunst zu offenbaren.” – Matthieu Poirier

KOLKOZ
An exhibition curated by Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin at Wentrup Gallery, Berlin
Exhibition Dates: January 15th – 23rd, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday January 15th, 6pm – 9pm

WENTRUP
Tempelhofer Ufer 22
10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg

Press release and image provided by the galleries.